self-respect

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *swé?

Proto-Indo-European *selbʰ-der.

Proto-Germanic *selbaz

Old English self

Old English self-

Middle English self-

English self-

English respect

English self-respect

From self- + respect.

Pronunciation

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Noun

self-respect (uncountable)

1. The knowledge of one's own worth.
   • 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter XXIV, in Mansfield Park: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC:

     […] he wished he had been a William Price, distinguishing himself and working his way to fortune and consequence with so much self-respect and happy ardour, instead of what he was!

   • 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC:

     In the little chaos of Pearl's character there might be seen emerging […] an uncontrollable will—sturdy pride, which might be disciplined into self-respect—and a bitter scorn of many things which, when examined, might be found to have the taint of falsehood in them.

   • 1915, Virginia Woolf, chapter XIX, in The Voyage Out, London: Duckworth & Co., […], →OCLC:

     Would any woman have behaved like that—if a man had said he didn’t want her? We’ve too much self-respect; we’re infinitely finer than they are.

   • 1965 October 1, Frank Herbert, “Book I: Dune”, in Dune, Philadelphia, Pa.: Chilton Book Company; [Toronto], Ont.: Thomas Nelson & Sons, →OCLC, page 103:

     “To hold Arrakis,” the Duke said, “one is faced with decisions that may cost one his self-respect.” He pointed out the window to the Atreides green and black banner hanging limply from a staff at the edge of the landing field. "That honorable banner could come to mean many evil things."

Translations

knowledge of one's own worth

• Afrikaans: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: ինքնասիրություն (hy) (inkʻnasirutʻyun), արժանապատվություն (hy) (aržanapatvutʻyun), թասիբ (hy) (tʻasib)
• Azerbaijani: özünə hörmət
• Bulgarian: самоуваже́ние (bg) n (samouvažénie)
• Catalan: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Hokkien: chì-khì, chū-chun

  Mandarin: 自尊 (zh) (zìzūn), 自尊心 (zh) (zìzūnxīn)

• Czech: sebeúcta (cs) f
• Danish: selvrespekt c
• Dutch: zelfrespect (nl) n
• Esperanto: memrespekto
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: itsekunnioitus (fi)
• French: respect de soi m, dignité personnelle f
• Georgian: თვითდაფასება (tvitdapaseba), თავმოყვარეობა (tavmoq̇vareoba)
• German: Selbstachtung (de) f, Selbstrespekt (de) m, Selbstwertschätzung f
• Greek: αυτοσεβασμός (el) m (aftosevasmós)
• Hindi: आत्मगौरव (hi) m (ātmagaurav), आत्मसम्मान m (ātmasammān)
• Hungarian: önérzet (hu)
• Ido: please add this translation if you can
• Irish: féinmheas m
• Italian: autostima (it) f
• Japanese: 自尊 (ja) (じそん, jison), 自尊心 (ja) (じそんしん, jisonshin)
• Khmer: ការគោរពរាប់អានខ្លួនឯង (kaa kourup roap aan kluən ae ngɔɔ)
• Korean: 자존심 (ko) (jajonsim)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Latvian: pašcieņa f
• Lithuanian: savigarba f
• Luxembourgish: please add this translation if you can
• Manx: arrym er hene m
• Māori: kiritau
• Navajo: ádiłjídlį́, ádił ídlį́
• Norwegian: please add this translation if you can
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• Persian: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: poczucie własnej wartości n, szacunek dla samego siebie m
• Portuguese: orgulho (pt) m, vergonha na cara f
• Romanian: respect de sine n
• Russian: чу́вство со́бственного досто́инства (ru) n (čúvstvo sóbstvennovo dostóinstva), самоуваже́ние (ru) n (samouvažénije)
• Scottish Gaelic: fèin-urram m
• Serbo-Croatian: samopoštovanje (sh)
• Spanish: autorrespeto m
• Swedish: självaktning (sv) c
• Turkish: özsaygı
• Vietnamese: lòng tự trọng
• Volapük: please add this translation if you can
• Welsh: hunan-barch m

See also

• dignity
• self-esteem
• self-worth